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Tory MP Peter Lilley was so insulted by the remarks at the civil service think-tank event that he walked out.

The Cabinet minister even considered reported Lord Kerr for being “racially abusive of the British people”.

At the event, the EU lover said: “There’s a much deeper argument to have – and that is about whether immigration is good for you or bad for you. In my view, immigration is the thing that keeps this country running.

“We native Brits are so bloody stupid that we need an injection of intelligent people, young people from outside who come in and wake us up from time to time.”

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We native Brits are so bloody stupid that we need an injection of intelligent people

Lord Kerr

Lord Kerr added: “It’s completely true that the Leave campaign, by cleverly outsourcing the xenophobia and the racism to the Farage campaign, were able to salve their consciences it seems by pinning Cameron to the fact that we would only take back control when we left.

“But supposing we did stop all the immigration from the EU, we would not have met Mr Cameron’s target – he would have done a lot of damage to the country if he had met it, but it was in his power to meet it by stopping immigration from outside the EU.

“So the premise of the argument about immigration was false.”

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Kerr also blasted Nigel Farage in his speech

Perplexed by the outburst, Mr Lilley said: “I think these comments revealed the contempt that some Eurocrats like Lord Kerr have for ordinary British people.

“They think they are there to rule the country and hugely resent any interference by the electorate.

“To say the British people are stupid and then to suggest that housing has nothing to do with immigration displays such profound stupidity that one wonders why he lectures other people.

“It is particularly odd coming from a man who is racially abusive of British people.”